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Jack and Farzaneh Guillebeaux on their wedding day in front of the Baha’i Temple, Wilmette IL, 1965 and then in 2011.
For most people it wasn’t OK that Jack and Farzaneh Guillebeaux fell in love. In the 1960s, in North Carolina, a romantic relationship between a white woman and a black man was impermissible.
The pair met at a Baha’i Fireside (introductory talk) in Asheville, N.C. shortly after Farzaneh immigrated to the U.S. from Iran to go to college.“My plan was to go to school for four years and then go back home,” she said. “But God had other plans.”
The Guillebeauxs chuckle when they re-tell the stories.“For us it was mostly funny. Walking down the street we could almost time when to turn around to see everyone else turn back around,” Farzaneh said, giggling.
They weren’t there to prove a point. The Guillebeauxs were there to fight prejudice.“We could see first hand why Baha’u’llah said it [interracial marriage] was service to humanity, because prejudice is something learned and just by seeing an interracial couple it tends to start erasing that phobia,” Farzaneh said. “And we witnessed this in the changing of attitudes with the people we had contact with.” Jack said prejudice is born out of ignorance and said all interracial couples, and interracial children (they had two), are helping the country move forward.
This summer the couple celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary.And although society has come a long way since 1965, Jack said interracial couples still don’t go unnoticed.“People have to think about what they’re looking at and what it means. It’s helping people to understand what the new normal is,” he said.And that, they added, is a crucial part of what being Baha’i is all about.
“It’s about striving to translate that which has been written into reality and action,” Farzaneh said.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lux34qPfoT1qbo1y4o1_500.jpg)
Jack and Farzaneh Guillebeaux on their wedding day in front of the Baha’i Temple, Wilmette IL, 1965 and then in 2011.
For most people it wasn’t OK that Jack and Farzaneh Guillebeaux fell in love.
In the 1960s, in North Carolina, a romantic relationship between a white woman and a black man was impermissible.The pair met at a Baha’i Fireside (introductory talk) in Asheville, N.C. shortly after Farzaneh immigrated to the U.S. from Iran to go to college.“My plan was to go to school for four years and then go back home,” she said. “But God had other plans.”
The Guillebeauxs chuckle when they re-tell the stories.“For us it was mostly funny. Walking down the street we could almost time when to turn around to see everyone else turn back around,” Farzaneh said, giggling.
They weren’t there to prove a point. The Guillebeauxs were there to fight prejudice.“We could see first hand why Baha’u’llah said it [interracial marriage] was service to humanity, because prejudice is something learned and just by seeing an interracial couple it tends to start erasing that phobia,” Farzaneh said. “And we witnessed this in the changing of attitudes with the people we had contact with.”
Jack said prejudice is born out of ignorance and said all interracial couples, and interracial children (they had two), are helping the country move forward.This summer the couple celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary.And although society has come a long way since 1965, Jack said interracial couples still don’t go unnoticed.“People have to think about what they’re looking at and what it means. It’s helping people to understand what the new normal is,” he said.And that, they added, is a crucial part of what being Baha’i is all about.
“It’s about striving to translate that which has been written into reality and action,” Farzaneh said.
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